First and Last
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Chapters (44)
- FIRST AND LAST
- CONTENTS
- FIRST AND LAST
- On Weighing Anchor
- The Reveillon
- On Cheeses
- The Captain of Industry
- The Inventor
- The Views of England
- The Lunatic
- The Inheritance of Humour
- The Old Gentleman’s Opinions
- On Historical Evidence
- The Absence of the Past
- St. Patrick
- The Lost Things
- On the Reading of History
- The Victory
- Reality
- On the Decline of the Book: [And Especially of the Historical Book]
- José Maria de Heredia
- Normandy and the Normans
- The Old Things
- The Battle of Hastings. Related in the Manner of Oxford and Dedicated to that University
- The Roman Roads in Picardy
- The Reward of Letters
- The Eye-Openers
- The Public
- On Entries
- Companions of Travel
- On the Sources of Rivers
- On Error
- The Great Sight
- The Decline of a State
- On Past Greatness
- Mr. The Duke: The Man of Malplaquet
- The Game of Cards
- “King Lear”
- The Excursion
- The Tide
- On a Great Wind
- The Letter
- The Regret
- The End Of The World
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